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Discover LudwigThe phrase "allowed the breakdown of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where something was permitted or facilitated to fail or deteriorate.
Example: "The lack of oversight allowed the breakdown of communication within the team."
Alternatives: "permitted the collapse of" or "facilitated the failure of".
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Bread used to be a fermented product, which allowed the breakdown of proteins such as gluten.
One study found that the ripening process allowed the breakdown of chlorophyll in ripening apples and pears which, in turn, produced more "highly active" antioxidants in the fruit.
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"We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do".
He said, "We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do".
Colum Eastwood, the leader of the smaller nationalist SDLP, said Northern Irish politicians could not allow the breakdown of talks "to be the destruction of all that we have achieved".
"We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do". Mr Perry said the special session would take up three pieces of legislation, including the abortion bill.
Although the Council of Europe argues that the CEFR has an open and flexible structure which allows the breakdown of a major level into sub-levels (e.g., A1.1, A1.2), a new framework with a structure of proficiency levels tailored to the needs of English language education in China will no doubt be more functionally efficient and user friendly (see The implementation plan of the CSE project below).
Thus, in rheumatoid arthritis, defective regulatory mechanisms might allow the breakdown of peripheral tolerance, after which the detrimental Th1-driven immune response evolves and proceeds to chronic inflammation.
The placenta expresses hydrolases and lipases as well as fatty acid binding proteins, allowing the breakdown of maternal lipoproteins and hydrolysis of maternal triglycerides.
This is because fluoride inhibits the enzyme enolase, which acts late in the Embden-Meyerhof pathway, thus allowing the "breakdown" of glucose to intermediate molecules earlier in the glycolytic cycle (2).
Furthermore, the evolution of a subsurface community containing fermentative and respiratory species allowing the breakdown of complex organic substrates to CO2 through different species may be advantageous as each species does not need to synthesize a full set of proteins for the complete oxidization of complex organic substrates.
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